Produced by: The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
Released: April 1st 2015
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Free speech in a 2015 western context is not about complaining that books that feature gross acts of torture are not available at your local primary school. It’s not about the Comics Code problems of the 1950’s, and it’s not about individual (rare) examples of censorship in New Mexico either. No, in my far from humble opinion, free speech in a 2015 western context is about fighting back against the fascist, communist, Marxist, liberal drip left and their insidious mind control tactic called POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
This debut issue of ‘Defender’ features an interview with Neil Gaiman, a man with one single example of his work being censored by government. The example is from Sweden, and happened to this great champion of free speech TWENTY-SIX YEARS AGO. In the end nothing happened, nobody went to jail, nobody got fined, nobody got censored. That’s it, that’s his battle with censors, well, that and one teacher in New Mexico not liking one of his books. That issue was easily solved without any censorship or prosecutions either.
Why are they interviewing this man? I’ve read his stuff, and he’s about as safe as you can get. His work is neither edgy nor controversial in the slightest. He says nothing about the world, nothing about politics and nothing that anybody could possibly get even slightly upset about. That one teacher in New Mexico that didn’t like his Goth teenager stuff didn’t have anything valid to complain about, and that’s why her complaints were dismissed. Seriously, if I were publishing my own pamphlet about comic book censorship then the last person in the world that I would want to interview would be Neil bloody Gaiman.
So who would I interview then? How about somebody who is actually fighting against political correctness (real censorship) in comic books today, or at least somebody who is putting some real world analysis into his comic books?
Here’s the problem. It’s very difficult to think of any individual working in mainstream comic books today that actually fits that bill. The closest you would get is Sergio Aragones, and his work in ‘Groo- The Hogs of Horder’ where he talks about things that other comic books wouldn’t even dare to mention. But he’s rare, very rare.
There’s always Frank Miller and his excellent work in ‘Holy Terror’ of course. Why not interview him? You might not agree with his views, but he put his neck out and went somewhere that everybody else working in mainstream comic books today still refuses to go. What did he do that was so controversial? He criticised Islam, an act that is completely absent in mainstream comic books today, even as suicide bombs and school massacres now become a daily occurrence all over the world. Criticise Christians as much as you like in your comic books, but never, ever, ever criticise Muslims. Well, you can do, just don’t bother coming into work the next morning. That’s censorship. That’s real censorship, and that’s exactly how it works. You have certain ‘topics’ that you cannot discuss, and if you do discuss them, career over.
‘Defender #1’ does discuss the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, but there’s only one short paragraph that briefly touches on the real issue that is at the heart of what happened there. The issue is not censorship, or free speech when it comes to discussing issues related to religion. No, the ONLY issue is whether or not Islam can be discussed without some nutjob threatening to murder everybody who dared to mention his satanic death cult. That’s the issue in 2015, not free speech, but ISLAM, the violent religion with legions of cult members who will threaten to chop your head off or machine gun your children if you dare even question ANYTHING about it.
Liberal comic book writers will do somersaults to make excuses for this death cult, and go out of their way to not offend them. Suicide bombings and massacres don’t appear to matter at all as they preach ‘tolerance’ and respect, protecting the very people who would gladly massacre every single last (tolerant) one of them. This is not tolerance, it’s cowardice, and the murdered cartoonists that worked for Charlie Hebdo are the inevitable price we are currently paying for our liberal tolerance/cowardice in the west.
When one person says something that needs to be said he becomes a target, but if everybody is saying it then the truth of what is being said can be properly understood and acted upon. I read so many comic books, and whenever religion comes up it always has a Christian slant. 99% of the time that slant is negative, with the Christians portrayed as a mad/dangerous cult with a crazy leader and brainwashed followers. That’s the norm in my comic books, but what isn’t the norm is the actually truth of what is happening today in the religion of Islam with violent psychopaths murdering non-believers all of the time, and with the PC liberal prat crowd too bloody cowardly to say anything about it. Well, I’m sticking my own head up here and saying it loud. If you want to portray violent extremist religious cults in my comic books then get with reality and start making them Muslim, not Christian. Be like Charlie. Stop being cowardly. Stop self-censoring.
Mainstream comic books in 2015 are extremely tame, and you’d be hard pressed to find anything controversial in ANY of them. The writers are so liberal, so drippy, and so politically correct, that they are actually censoring themselves. Here’s a true statement:
MAINSTREAM WESTERN COMIC BOOKS DO NOT NEED TO BE CENSORED BECAUSE THEY ARE ALREADY CENSORING THEMSELVES.
I buy a lot of comic books, too many actually, I need to cut down. Do you know how many of them say something that I would consider genuinely controversial? Hardly any of them, and that’s why I’m well known for slagging them all off. I have to. I’m not good at keeping quiet. I have a big mouth, and when I’m confronted with wave after wave of nonsense I have to say something about it.
There are so many ‘controversial’ topics that you won’t find being discussed in contemporary, mainstream comic books. DC and Marvel are the worst, they don’t discuss anything that’s not corporate approved, but don’t expect anything revolutionary or genuinely rebellious coming from the rest of the comic book publishers either. Expect a tonne of nostalgia and a million variant covers, but truth? That’s a depressing rarity in comic books today.
Here’s just a few of the subjects that the mainstream comic book genre is terrified of discussing:
1- The problems with Israel.
2- Mainstream media manipulation.
3- The problems with Islam.
4- The men’s rights movement.
5- Third wave feminism and how it has been used to destroy families and make females more dependent upon government as a substitute ‘Daddy’ figure in the lives of their children.
6- Saudi Arabia, and the west’s ties to this murderous regime.
7- China owning US debt, and having all of it’s ‘outsourced’ jobs.
8- US wars of aggression based on acknowledged lies.
9- Late stage democracy, and how your vote no longer even matters.
10- Anarchy or freedom from centralised control systems (Government).
11- The poisons in your food and water.
12- The poisons in vaccines.
13- Big pharma, suicide pills and the pink ribbon cancer con.
14- Guns, and how an unarmed population is an enslaved population.
15- Muslim suicide bombers (they never appear in comics).
16- Sunni/Shiaa, what is the difference between the two? You’ll never know if you keep on reading comics.
17- False flag attacks like 9/11 and the London tube bombing and how they are used to justify the Police state.
18- How the ‘race’ ‘gender’ and ‘sexuality’ cards are manipulated by the powers that shouldn’t be (government) in a process of thought control and censorship wrapped up as ‘tolerance.’
19- Public schooling as government indoctrination camps, turning children into order following slaves to the corporate/fascist state.
20- International privately owned banking, including the concept of fractional reserve lending, designed to enslave the masses under waves of unpayable debt.
This list could go on and on, and on. Seriously, I could get to 100 without even thinking about it, and if I gave it some serious thought the list would probably get closer to 500. So when I read a book like this one (Defender) I react in the only way that I can. I go to my computer, write up some truth, and stick it on my blog. That truth is simple. I said it earlier on in this article, but it needs to be repeated ad nauseum:
MAINSTREAM WESTERN COMIC BOOKS DO NOT NEED TO BE CENSORED BECAUSE THEY ARE ALREADY CENSORING THEMSELVES.
That’s a sad state of affairs, but that’s what’s happening right now, and that’s why I continue to write my ‘controversial’ reviews here on my blog. I applaud SOME of the work being done by the 'Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’ (not the stuff where they try to get sick books put in school libraries) but they need to look a bit closer to home.
Censorship in liberal fantasyland works not by having censors, but by having the politically correct, feminist liberal ‘tolerant’writers subconsciously censoring themselves. They can talk about gay rights or women’s rights as much as they like, but genuinely controversial subject matters like Islamic terrorism are a no-go area.
Defender Issue #1 has the laudable goal of standing up for free speech, but what it is really about is protecting PC liberal free speech. The freedoms we really need to protect are the freedoms to say what is NOT politically correct, and I don’t see that debate being raised in this comic book. I’m not enjoying writing up this article where I’m criticising a comic book that has been designed to protect free speech, but the fact of the matter right now is that mainstream western comic books don’t even need to be censored, as the writers are already censoring themselves.
